# And Now For Something Completely Different

There are those weird coincidences that flock together and have the power of
subverting initial expectations. Something like that has happened to me this
week, when I've ended up spending a considerable amount of my
[IRILL](http://www.irill.org) work time (you know, something like 1000% of it)
as a Debian [Video Team](http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Videoteam) volunteer.

Mean as I am, I'm *not* going to explain the concatenation of coincidences.

Suffices to say that most of the video hardware meant to be used at
[DebConf11](http://debconf11.debconf.org) ended up being in my IRILL office. Of
course all of it — for about 200 kg and 2000 liters — was in need of some
inventory, packing, and shipment love. Together with
[Holger](http://layer-acht.org/blog/debian), [Mehdi](http://blog.dogguy.org/),
and Etci we have tamed all of it. The following box miscellanea will therefore
soon be on its way to Banja Luka:

[[!img dc11-video-hw.jpg size="500x" alt="DebConf11 video hardware" title="DebConf11 video hardware" caption="DebConf11 video hardware"]]

As an undesirable side effect, I had to join
[Bdale](http://www.gag.com/bdale/blog/)'s «knows more about
[ATA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA_Carnet) than he'd like to»-club. <br />
Holger opted not to join the club and I really can't blame him.

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